First off... thank you for updating...I have been waiting to know how this was going to go down. To be quite honest, I really wanted to smack Nathan because he was acting stupid and placing the blame on her when she did this to PROTECT him...I kept on thinking to myself "Nathan needs to QUIT acting stupid and talk to Audrey. Bold move on breaking out...though Nathan needs to quit on trying to convince her to kill him because for one thing she has made it clear that she won't kill him and he is acting more persistent than he was on the show. Please tell me that you are planning on writing in some way where Nathan doesn't have to die to end the troubles... because to be frank...I wish to not read about him dying in later chapters or else I will cry. Also please please PLEASE have Audrey and Duke find some way to help Nathan acquire his freedom from the guard's control...because seriously I want sleeping with Audrey in his arms every night instead of having to sleep alone locked in the backroom of The Herald. Staying there will do nothing to remove his self-hatred for himself right now. Then again...I wonder how Vince and Dave are going to react when they don't find Nathan's face waiting for them when they come to let him out in the morning.

Okay...personally I liked him finding out about this on the show WAY better than how he found out here...I mean come on...I highly don't believe that this was how Audrey intended to reveal herself to Nathan. Now she is going to have to get him alone so that she can be able to explain why she had to lie to him... finally get him out of the guards control...I mean it...I want him out of the guards control...hopefully she can strong arm the guard or try to convince Vince to agree to something else. Why do I get the feeling that there is going to be a heated discussion between Audrey and Nathan in the next chapter... oh and also please tell me that Jordan is dead. Lastly...in some ways I am glad that Nathan now knows because now he can finally stop mopping. I adore him greatly... but it hurts me to read about him mopping...when all I want to read about him is being happy with his Audrey. That is all I want.

-I just love it when Nathan thinks about all the little things he loves about Parker, aww!
-Lol, I wondered if anyone was going to feed him ToT That's funny about the Teagues not being pet-owner material.
-Eee! So much mention of Sarah, I love it.
-What?! No! You don’t want that trouble! What if you heard Audrey in danger and couldn’t help?! You'd hate that!
-Aw, good on Dave helping Nathan out. Yay Dave!
-Oh I’d totally forgotten Vince and Dave checked out a Jane Doe! OH scary! I’m impressed Nathan handled it so well.
-Well I’ll be, was not expecting that from Vince! Better late than never I guess.
-Garland did know!
-Ohhhhh I really appreciate the “tries not to remember lies….”! Audrey made so many hurtful choices. ‘:)
-Lol, Nathan found the potential ‘anyone she loves’ loophole so quick!
-Haha, me, laughing in evil anticipation whenever Nathan defends Audrey against accusations that everything is her fault….
-I like the “absolute, unswerving (emboldening, strengthening, intimidating) trust”
-Yay for remembering James! Totally logical Nathan would feel off about the Cogans.
-Hey now Nathan, you’ve got a lot to be sad about buddy but you jump to conclusions too; you don’t know James made no effort to find you!
-Hear that, Nathan? Duke said he was trying to see you! Do try to remember that, okay?! Every now and then people actually say things clearly and directly XD
-Thanks for an awesome chapter!

Heck yeah I’m still here reading this deliciously long entertaining story that I’m enjoying wonderfully much!
Man, you had me shook with just the title. :O I cannot believe I was WRONG about it! Seriously?! I WAS WRONG? I thought for sure it would be 'Strangers'! How was I wrong?! BUT OKAY FREAKING 'OPPONENTS' EXCUSE ME WHILE I SCRAMBLE TO EMOTIONALLY PREPARE MYSELF! I DIDN’T THINK WE’D HIT THIS LEVEL QUITE SO SOON!
I can’t believe I was wrong. ToT
Oooh but he *did* say he felt like her “opponent” at one point, didn’t he? SHUCKS, I didn’t give that one enough thought.
Anyway, after I recovered from the title:
-This is pretty much just what I expected. Hurt all the way through D’:
-I really like that Nathan stays in Haven!
-‘oh woe is me, it takes me so much longer without Audrey’ *talks his way into Elin’s house within minutes*
-Serious question: Nathan only *just* considered the idea that Duke could love Audrey?
-“No wonder Audrey had only kissed Nathan—“ ooop! Here it is! I’ve been waiting to see what he thought, what’s it gonna be?! *rubs hands eagerly*
“Friendship” pft, of course XD *rolls eyes*
“grief” bruh
“and pitty” smh oml that’s hilarious
Pitty kisses. Oh man. Yeah, sure Nathan, *pitty* kisses are a thing. XD Audrey was famous for them!
-Audrey sent alllll the worst signals but this man is going to find a way to watch her walking down the aisle and think “if only she weren’t marrying me just for the tax break”
-Oh no meenies beating up Nathan oh my! I knew you’d find a way to top the bikers punching him. *cries softly*
-Ohhhh INTERESTING! You’re changing Nathan’s trouble! COOL! (LOL, is this just so you can injure him more?!) That thing with Haskell was weird. I figured he dislocated his shoulders but the way it was shown made it seem like more.
-“The self-castigation that would break him if anyone thought to inflict it on him.” Not to encourage your malicious muse but I like this part where he says the names to himself.
-Oooh I love how Sarah’s descriptor was mixed in with Audrey’s .
-(blue sweater on the beach? That’s Sarah right?)
-“the friend that could have been.” Nathan can forgive Duke but I shall not so easily! I recall some not so distant “Pinocchio” and “you’re not a real boy” jabs from a grown man who should know better. So humph!
-Oh nice! DANG is that it? Sarah named him and poof, Vince hates Nathan forever. Oh so simple! I love it. OMG, Vince! You’ve wasted so much time being jealous of a man you wouldn’t meet for years! What would Sarah think of you torturing her love?!
-“How badly Max Hansen served this town” Hmm, is this about more than being a murder? Or is fathering Nathan worth mentioning compared to that XD
-“and how wrong Garland was to think he could mitigate some of your dangerous mistakes by taking you in”. Hmmmm, so Garland was in the know? Mistakes plural? Did they want to stop James’s birth?
-So…does everyone know? The whole guard at least? Or maybe Vince’s influence is enough. Everyone ostracized him from the beginning and like…. jeepers people you have no idea the circumstances behind James’s conception! And no proof the cycle would have stopped without James being born. Oh man. XD
-I ~like~ how Vince has put ALL of this on Nathan and conveniently ignored Sarah/Lucy/Audrey’s agency.
-Lol, sure Vince, kill a man Audrey cares about. That’ll go over well. I actually want to know what would happen if they DID kill Nathan. Cause Audrey’s historical response to a man she loves being taken away is …dramatic. I actually asked this once elsewhere about the whole “Trial of Nathan Wuornos” thing in S5. What WOULD Audrey have done if the town had strung Nathan up? Would she have hung on to what Nathan would have wanted or would she have channeled some Mara?
-Awwww I really like the ending. I was just thinking “why don’t they just lock him up” and then they did so, :)
-I like the “you can’t be trusted with her”. Ah, my heart.
-My goodness but the town is going to hate them! The woman who created the troubles and the guy they already hate for keeping them around?! Who sticks by her even when her evil is revealed? Look, Audrey, Nathan, Haven’s been nice, you did your best, but save yourselves maybe.
-BTW I’m still grumpy at Audrey, I’m pre-mad at her for hiding behind Lexi, just more lies that she KNOWS hurt Nathan and not trusting him enough. No more kisses for her until she earns them!
-As always, thank you for this!

Okay...I hope Audrey will let Nathan in on the fact that she isn't actually Lexie DeWitt... because seeing him feeling miserable and still in the custody of the guard is not something I can handle reading without feeling bad for him. I hope that she tells Nathan to stop feeling bad because she is Audrey Parker... and that his Parker came back to him.

I hope that Audrey made it out of there alive and I hope that Duke can hopefully create a plan that will make Vince and the guard relinquish their punishment hold that they currently have Nathan over, because even though Nathan screwed things over royally for everyone in the town by shooting the controller of the barn, he doesn't need to be treated like a hostage. I know that whenever I watched the end of the season three finale and the episodes leading up to Audrey's return from the barn, I wasn't that happy with the decision and situation that Nathan had put himself and everyone in the town in but I later quickly forgave him for his actions after realizing that he did it because he wasn't ready to let go of the woman he loved dearly. I felt sorry for him. I don't like Jordan. I never liked her from the first time we met her in early season three...….I tried putting up with her while Nathan was dating...….couldn't due to the fact that all Jordan seemed to want to do was be bitter and have a bad attitude and have a vendetta against Audrey. I was only relieved to find out that Nathan never felt a thing for her and was only going out with her in order to get information about what the guard could do to help protect Audrey from The Hunter. I was also relieved when Nathan decided to cheat on Jordan with Sarah Vernon when he and Duke were sent back by Stuart Moseley's trouble...because that ultimately proved the theory that Nathan never cared about Jordan in that way at all...though I would LOVE to hear how Jordan found out about the 1955 dalliance between Nathan and Sarah...given the fact that the tidbit was NEVER shared with anyone else besides Howard, Audrey and Nathan. Like I said, I hope that someone can help Nathan get released from the guards' prison hold, because I know that he screwed up royally but these punishments seem a bit extreme in my opinion. I hope that Duke can be able to work out a deal that the guard will agree to because I know Audrey wanted the both of them to look out for each other, and Audrey sure as heck would not have wanted Nathan to be going through with the guard, in fact she would be furious that the guard is doing this to him.